Research Articles
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Hopkins, M.E., Davis, F.C., VanTieghem, M., Whalen, P.J., and Bucci, D.J. (in press) Differential effects of acute and regular physical exercise on cognition and affect. Neuroscience.
Robinson, S. and Bucci, D.J. (in press) Anterograde and retrograde amnesia of contextual and auditory fear after damage to the postsubiculum. Hippocampus.
Potter, A.S., Bucci, D.J., and Newhouse, P.A. (2012) Manipulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors differentially affects behavioral inhibition in human subjects with and without disordered baseline impulsivity. Psychopharmacology, 220, 331-340.
Akagbosu, C.O., Evans, G.C., Gulick, D., Suckow, R.F. and Bucci, D.J. (in press) Exposure to kynurenic acid during adolescence produces memory deficits in adulthood. Schizophrenia Bulletin. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbq151
Trecartin, K.V. and Bucci, D.J. (2011) Administration of kynurenine during adolescence, but not during adulthood, impairs social behavior in rats. Schizophrenia Research, 133, 156-158.
Hopkins, M.E., Nitecki, R., and Bucci, D.J. (2011) Physical exercise during adolescence versus adulthood: Differential effects on object recognition memory and BDNF expression. Neuroscience, 194, 84-94.
Robinson, S., Keene, C.S., Iaccarino, H.F., Duan, D., and Bucci, D.J. (2011) Involvement of the retrosplenial cortex in forming associations between multiple sensory stimuli. Behavioral Neuroscience, 125, 578-587.
Robinson, A.R., Hopkins, M.E., and Bucci, D.J. (2011) Effects of physical exercise on ADHD-like behavior in male and female adolescent Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 53, 383-390.
Hopkins, M.E. and Bucci, D.J. (2010) Interpreting the effects of exercise on fear conditioning: The influence of time of day. Behavioral Neuroscience, 24, 868-872..
MacLeod, J.E., Vucovich, M.M., and Bucci, D.J. (2010) Differential effects of ncotinic acetylcholine receptor stimulation on negative occasion setting. Behavioral Neuroscience, 124, 656-661..
Hopkins, M.E. and Bucci, D.J. (2010) Mechanisms underlying exercise-induced improvement in object recognition memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 94, 278-284.
MacLeod, J.E. and Bucci, D.J. (2010) Contributions of the subregions of medial prefrontal cortex to negative occasion setting. Behavioral Neuroscience, 124, 321-328.
Gulledge, A.T., Bucci, D.J., Zhang, S., Matsui, M., and Yeh, H.H. (2009) M1 receptors mediate cholinergic modulation of the excitability of neocortical pyramidal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 9888-9902.
Chess, A.C., Landers, A.M., and Bucci, D.J. (2009) L-kynurenine treatment alters contextual fear conditioning and context discrimination but not cue-specific fear conditioning. Behavioural Brain Research, 201, 325-331.
Hopkins, M.E., Sharma, M., Evans, G.C., and Bucci, D.J. (2009) Voluntary physical exercise alters attentional orienting and social behavior in rat model of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, 599-606.
Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. (2009) Damage to the retrosplenial cortex produces specific impairments in spatial working memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 91, 408-414.
Kesner, R.P. and Bucci, D.J. (2009) Attentional, perceptual, mnemonic and sensory-motor integration functions of the parietal cortex: a comparative approach. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 91, 103.
Bucci, D.J. (2009) Posterior parietal cortex: An interface between attention and learning? Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 91, 114-120.
Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. (2008) Neurotoxic lesions of retrosplenial cortex disrupt signaled and unsignalled contextual fear conditioning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 1070-1077.
Keene, C.S, and Bucci, D.J. (2008) Involvement of the retrosplenial cortex in processing multiple conditioned stimuli. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 651-658.
Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. (2008) Contributions of the retrosplenial and posterior parietal cortices to cue-specific and contextual fear conditioning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 89-97.
Bucci, D.J., Hopkins, M.E., Nunez, A.A., Breedlove, S.M., Sisk, C., and Nigg, J.T. (2008) Effects of sex hormones on associative learning in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Physiology and Behavior, 93, 651-657.
Bucci, D.J., Hopkins, M.E., Keene, C.S., Sharma, M., and Orr, L.E. (2008) Sex differences in learning and inhibition in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 187, 27-32.
Bucci, D.J. and MacLeod, J.E. (2007) Changes in neural activation during a surprise-induced enhancement of attention. European Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 2669-2676.
Keene, C.S. and Bucci, D.J. (2007) Automated measure of conditioned orienting behavior in rats. Behavior Research Methods, 39(2), 303-308.
Bucci, D.J. and Falls, W.A. (2007) An undergraduate neuroscience seminar based on the annual meeting of the society for neuroscience. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 5(2), A49-A52.
MacLeod, J.E., DeLeo, J., Hickey, W., Ahles, T.A., Saykin, A.J., Bucci, D.J. (2007) Cancer chemotherapy impairs contextual but not cued fear conditioning in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 181, 168-172.
Chess, A.C., Simoni, M.K., Alling, T.E., and Bucci, D.J. (2007) Elevations of endogenous kynurenic acid produce spatial working memory deficits. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33(3), 797-804.
MacLeod, J.E., Potter, A.S., Simoni, M.K., and Bucci, D.J. (2006) Nicotine administration enhances conditioned inhibition in rats. European Journal of Pharmacology, 551, 76-79.
Potter, A.S., Newhouse, P.N., and Bucci, D.J. (2006) Central nicotinic cholinergic systems: A role in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? Behavioural Brain Research, 175, 201-211.
Arenos, J.D., Musty, R.E., and Bucci, D.J. (2006) Blockade of cannabinoid CB1 receptors alters contextual learning and memory. European Journal of Pharmacology, 539, 177-183.
Chess, A.C. and Bucci, D.J. (2006) Increased levels of cerebral kynurenic acid alter stimulus processing and conditioned responding in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 170, 326-332.
Bucci, D.J. and Chess, A.C. (2005) Specific changes in conditioned responding following neurotoxic damage to the posterior parietal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 1580-1587.
Chess, A.C., Keene, C.S., Wyzik, E.C., and Bucci, D.J. (2005) Stimulus processing and associative learning in Wistar and WKHA rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 772-780.
Burwell, R.D., Bucci, D.J., Sanborn, M.R., and Jutras, M.J. (2004) Perirhinal and postrhinal contribution to remote memory for context. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 11023-11028.
Bucci, D.J. and Burwell, R.D. (2004) Deficits in attentional orienting following damage to postrhinal or perirhinal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 1117-1122.
Burwell, R.D., Saddoris, M.P., Bucci, D.J., and Wiig, K.A. (2004) Corticohippocampal contributions to spatial and contextual learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 3826-3836.
Bucci, D.J., Saddoris, M.P., and Burwell, R.D. (2002) Damage to Postrhinal or Perirhinal Cortex Impairs Performance of a Contextual Fear Discrimination. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116(3), 479-488.
Burwell, R.D., Bucci, D.J., Wiig, K.A., Saddoris, M.P., and Sanborn, M.R. (2002) Experimental lesions of the parahippocampal region in rats. In: The Parahippocampal Region, Organization and Role in Cognitive Functions (M.P. Witter and F.G. Wouterlood, eds.).
Bucci, D.J., Phillips, R.G., and Burwell, R.B. (2000) Contributions of postrhinal and perirhinal cortices to contextual information processing. Behavioral Neuroscience, 114(5), 882-894.
Bucci, D.J., Conley, M.C., and Gallagher, M. (1999) Thalamic and basal forebrain cholinergic connections of the rat posterior parietal cortex. NeuroReport, 10(5), 941-945.
Baxter, M.G., Bucci, D.J., Holland, P.C., and Gallagher, M. (1999) Impairments in conditioned stimulus processing and conditioned responding after combined selective removal of hippocampal and neocortical cholinergic input. Behavioral Neuroscience, 113(3), 486-495.
Bucci, D.J., Holland, P.C., and Gallagher, M. (1998) Removal of cholinergic input to rat posterior parietal cortex disrupts incremental processing of conditioned stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 18(19), 8038-8046.
Bucci, D.J., Rosen, D.L., and Gallagher, M. (1998) Effect of age on pilocarpine-induced c-fos expression in rat hippocampus and cortex. Neurobiology of Aging, 19(3), 227-232.
Baxter, M.G., Bucci, D.J., Sobel, T.J., Gorman, L.K., and Gallagher, M. (1996) Intact spatial learning following lesions of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. NeuroReport, 7, 1417-1420.
Chiba, A.A., Bucci, D.J., Holland, P.C., and Gallagher, M. (1995) Basal forebrain cholinergic lesions disrupt increments but not decrements in conditioned stimulus processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 15(11), 7315-7322.
Baxter, M.G., Bucci, D.J., Gorman, L.K., Wiley, R.G., and Gallagher, M. (1995) Selective immunotoxic lesions of basal forebrain cholinergic cells: Effects on learning and memory in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 109(4), 714-722.
Morrow, A.L., Devaud, L.L., Bucci, D.J., and Smith, F.D. (1995) GABAA and NMDA receptor subunit mRNA expression in ethanol dependent rats. Alcohol and Alcoholism, Supp(2), 91-97.
Bucci, D.J., Chiba, A.A., and Gallagher, M. (1995) Spatial learning in male and female Long-Evans rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 109(1), 180-183.
Gallagher, M., Gill, T.M., Baxter, M.G., and Bucci, D.J. (1994) The development of neurobiological models for cognitive decline in aging. Seminars in the Neurosciences, 6(6), 351-358.